DiggBar Launches Today! — Hey everyone - — Starting today, we'll begin rolling out a new product we are calling the DiggBar. Before we dive into the details, check out this short video overview: — The DiggBar allows you to... - Digg directly on the destination site: No more awkward toggling between the story page and Digg.

DiggBar Is Here. Go Shorten Those URLs — Last month we wrote about the new Digg toolbar product called DiggBar. It launched today. If you want to try it out immediately, just add “digg.com/” before any URL at all (the image above is using the techcrunch domain).

Mark Zuckerberg's Status Update: Paranoid as Hell — Is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hunting leakers? His internal memo about CFO Gideon Yu's departure got forwarded to bloggers. Perhaps he was hoping that would happen, and not just so his spin would get out.

Dissent Is Dead At Facebook, Employees Complain — Facebook and CFO Gideon Yu did not part ways because the company needs a CFO with public company experience. A source familiar with Facebook admits that's just spin. — We don't know exactly why Facebook and Gideon parted ways …

The Discovery Engine Is Coming — A few weeks ago we started testing Twitter Search in the web interface for a subset of folks. We had the search box way up near the top of the page and the results on a separate page. It turns out that's not the awesome way to do it.

Free Stanford course on developing iPhone software — Want to know how to write programs for the iPhone and iPod touch? Beginning this week, a Stanford computer science class on that buzzworthy topic will be available online to the general public for free. — The 10-week course, iPhone Application Programming, is a hot ticket.

New in Labs: Gmail search made easier (and lazier) — On the Gmail team, we believe finding the right email among thousands of messages can be as important as finding the right web page across the billions of web pages out there. So with the aim of making search in Gmail easier …

Really? I can't touch the Palm Pre? Really!?! — Those are not my hands. — (Credit: Bonnie Cha/CNET) — OK, I know I just got done gushing about the third-party apps on the Palm Pre, and I didn't want to take anything away from that but there's something I need to get off my chest.

Google lifts its skirts — Yesterday was a remarkable day for the small, slightly obsessed band of Google data-center watchers of which I am one. Around each of the company's sprawling server farms is a high metal fence patrolled by a particularly devoted squad of rent-a-cops, who may or may not be cyborgian in nature.

You've Got Voice Mail, but Do You Care? — WHEN Steve Hamrick left his last job as manager at a software corporation, he had at least 25 unheard messages in his office voice mailbox. And that's not counting the unreturned calls on his cellphone or landline at home. — It's not that he doesn't like to talk.

Piracy law cuts internet traffic — Internet traffic in Sweden fell by 33% as the country's new anti-piracy law came into effect, reports suggest. — Sweden's new policy - the Local IPRED law - allows copyright holders to force internet service providers (ISP) to reveal details of users sharing files.

I.B.M. Said to Be Near Deal for Sun at Lower Price — I.B.M. is close to a deal to acquire Sun Microsystems, a maker of computer servers and the creator of the Java programming language, for about $9.50 per Sun share, people familiar with the discussions told DealBook on Thursday.

Twitter's “Garyvee” Vaynerchuk Gets A Book Deal — Web wine guru branches into the print world — HarperStudio has signed a seven-figure, 10-book deal with Gary Vaynerchuk, a 33-year-old Belarusian-born wine retailer from New Jersey, who, except for a talk show appearance here and there …

Piracy Puts Film Online One Month Before Open — In a case of piracy that some analysts called unprecedented, untold thousands of people watched a version of “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” online Wednesday, a full month before its scheduled theater release. — The film's distributor …

Village mob thwarts Google Street View car — Angry villagers formed a human chain to thwart the progress of a Google Street View car that was in the process of taking photographs of their homes. — Police were called to Broughton in Buckinghamshire yesterday, after furious villagers blocked …

Amazon launches Hadoop data crunching service — Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. — The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses, researchers and analysts trying …

Google CEO to keynote newspaper convention — This ought to be fun. — Eric Schmidt, who will keynote the Newspaper Association of America's annual convention, runs the search engine company and advertising beast that many journalists at sick and/or dying newspapers blame for sucking up some of their advertising dollars.

NVIDIA's Franken-Mini is half HP, half Tegra, no Intel — And now, a little visit to the “Why not?” department: NVIDIA is showing off an HP Mini 1000 at CTIA that it has totally gutted, replacing the laptop's stock Atom-based circuitry with its own Tegra wares atop a bone-stock Windows CE build.

Microsoft To Officially Become a Monopoly in Russia — Yesterday Russian anti-monopoly authorities informed us about the fact that they intend to officially include Microsoft in the register of monopolies doing business in the country. To be listed as a monopoly, a company needs to hold …